Been getting a few people dming me with similar concerns and experiences and that they are afraid of speaking out. Thats crappy, but I don’t know the solution. I’m probably at a great risk as well just for mentioning it. opensats is already unprecedented in terms of giving out no strings attached moneys to open source projects, so maybe its just an “accept it pleb” situation. If we think we can do better then someone should step up and make a competing org, but that is another hard problem all on its own. I personally am grateful there are neutral orgs like HRF that are doing work in this area and are willing to support nostr and bitcoin projects as well. We are quite spoiled already, most of open source is not like this. 

 I told people that something is really wrong, it's usually 3 things

Money, Power and Control 

 The board is a good board and additional boards turns them from altruistic foundations to competing corporations. 

 A competing board doesn't seem like as much of a solution as just normalize business plans and payment models, so that we can all slowly wean ourselves off our day jobs and/or grants.

It will take years, I think. It's a cultural change.